 |
Judith Eissenberg (violin) is a founding member of the Naumburg Award winning Lydian String Quartet, in residence at Brandeis University since 1980. With the quartet she tours throughout the US and abroad and has made numerous recordings with New World Records, Centaur, Music Omnia, Nonesuch, CRI, Neuma and others. She has received grants from Chamber Music America, NEA, NEH, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Meet the Composer/Rockefeller Foundation/AT&T Jazz Program, the ASCAP/CMA Award for Adventuresome Programming and two Grammy nominations. With an expertise in both modern and period violin she has a commitment to the full range of the chamber music literature, performing, premiering and commissioning new works by young and established composers as well as repertoire from the standard chamber music repertoire.
Eissenberg is founder and co-director at Music From Salem, a summer chamber music festival in upstate NY, with funding from NYSCA and NEA that brings together chamber musicians of international stature to a rural setting to perform traditional and lesser-known works from the chamber music repertoire. During the summer months, she has been on the faculty and performed at festivals throughout the US, including the Chamber Music Conference and Composers’ Forum of the East, the Token Creek Chamber Music Festival, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Brandeis Summer Chamber Music Festival, the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society and others. In Boston, she has performed with the Boston Chamber Music Society, the Boston Conservatory Players and has been a core member and soloist with Boston Baroque and the Handel and Haydn Society. In addition to her full time position as Professor of the Practice in the Music Department at Brandeis University she is on the chamber music faculty at The Boston Conservatory.
Along with her work as performing musician, Eissenberg has a commitment to education and cultural work in the arts. At Brandeis University, Eissenberg founded and directs the program MusicUnitesUS, whose mission is to further the understanding and appreciation of diverse cultures through music. Through this program, established in 2003, more than 1000 public school students come to Brandeis to hear programs that are linked to the social studies curriculum. She is also founder and director of the Intercultural Residency Series, which brings to Brandeis University artists of high accomplishment from around the world. The goal of these residencies is to promote cultural exchange and intellectual inquiry through understanding and appreciation of diverse artistic traditions.
